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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
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Autumn Face Myself See Spring Summer
As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.
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Gift God Happiness Heart Love
The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
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Gift Heaven Material Poor Rich
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
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Glory Ourselves Peace Responsibility Wake Up
Death is an ascension to a better library.
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Better Death Library
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right, By these we reach divinity
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Divine Hands Ourselves Reason Soul
If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.
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Forever Parents Short Time
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.
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Art Compassionate Hold Man
Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Bell God
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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Death Diminish Freedom Kind Man
There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.
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Benefit Himself Willing
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.
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Art Build Creation Poetry
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
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Kiss Letter Soul
Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
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Alcohol Drink Honesty Leadership
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
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Criticism Death Life Ourselves
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!
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Change Deep Myself
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
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Establishment God Miracle Nature
What if this present were the world’s last night?
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End Night Present World
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
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Determination Difference Quiet Weakness
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
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Fools Love Myself Talk
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
JOHN DONNE

Angel Animal God Invitation Myself Noise Sound

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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